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A sort of ODB timeline, butchered from an MTV news article (it is UBELIEVABLE just how fucking rock'n'roll he was):

Convicted of second-degree assault in New York in 1993 (the only violent offense ever proven against him)

Shot in the stomach by another rapper in Brooklyn in 1994.

Also in 1994, ODB invited MTV News to spend an afternoon with him. On camera, he loaded several of his kids (he was said to have more than a dozen, by numerous mothers) into a limousine and proceeded to drive to a welfare office to collect food stamps.

In 1997 he was arrested for failing to pay nearly a year's worth of child support for three children he had with his wife, Icelene Jones.

At the 1998 Grammy Awards he took the stage and interrupted Shawn Colvin's acceptance speech (she won "Song of the Year" or something) to complain that the Wu-Tang Clan had lost to P. Diddy in a different category. Along with being awkwardly timed, the moment will be forever remembered because of Dirty's peculiar declaration: "Wu-Tang are for the children!" :D

Also In 1998, he pleaded guilty to attempted assault on Icelene and two months later was shot in the back during what he said was a robbery of his Brooklyn home (he walked out of the hospital, disobeying doctor's orders).

Later in 1998, he was arrested for shoplifting a pair of $50 sneakers in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and accosted a security guard at the House of Blues in Los Angeles and was charged with making "terrorist threats," charges he again faced only months later after he threatened to kill an ex-girlfriend.

In early 1999, ODB was pulled over in New York for a traffic violation and was accused of firing a gun at officers, although those charges were later dismissed when the police failed to prove their claims. A few months later, while being cited for a parking violation in Los Angeles, he became one of the first citizens arrested under a new California law that made wearing a bulletproof vest illegal for convicted felons. Two months later, he was picked up in Queens, New York, for running a red light and was arrested when police found crack in his Mercedes-Benz.

After two more arrests for traffic violations, including another one where he was found with crack, Dirty was sentenced to three years' probation and one year in a residential drug-rehab facility in Pasadena, California. (During court proceedings, he was scolded by the judge for falling asleep and calling a female attorney a "sperm donor.") Ten months later, after a disagreement with the staff, he walked out of the court-mandated rehab and became a fugitive.

A month later, two days after appearing onstage with the Wu-Tang Clan in New York, he was arrested in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Philadelphia by an officer who recognized him because her son was a fan.

ODB was then sentenced to two years behind bars. He spent most of that time at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York (where Tupac Shakur once served). While in prison, reports surfaced that ODB was suffering mental illness and was suicidal, although his reps denied them.

WHAT A GUY! He lived life to the fullest, I suppose.

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In a year where so many toweringly brilliant people in music have died (Syreeta, Stanley Turrentine, Elvin Jones, Rick James, John Peel to name a handful) none have had me literally welling up as I read tributes about them as I have been with ODB. I'm as close to devestated as I think I can be about someone I never knew.

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A sort of ODB timeline, butchered from an MTV news article (it is UBELIEVABLE just how fucking rock'n'roll he was):

Convicted of second-degree assault in New York in 1993 (the only violent offense ever proven against him)

Shot in the stomach by another rapper in Brooklyn in 1994.

Also in 1994, ODB invited MTV News to spend an afternoon with him. On camera, he loaded several of his kids (he was said to have more than a dozen, by numerous mothers) into a limousine and proceeded to drive to a welfare office to collect food stamps.

In 1997 he was arrested for failing to pay nearly a year's worth of child support for three children he had with his wife, Icelene Jones.

At the 1998 Grammy Awards he took the stage and interrupted Shawn Colvin's acceptance speech (she won "Song of the Year" or something) to complain that the Wu-Tang Clan had lost to P. Diddy in a different category. Along with being awkwardly timed, the moment will be forever remembered because of Dirty's peculiar declaration: "Wu-Tang are for the children!" :(

Also In 1998, he pleaded guilty to attempted assault on Icelene and two months later was shot in the back during what he said was a robbery of his Brooklyn home (he walked out of the hospital, disobeying doctor's orders).

Later in 1998, he was arrested for shoplifting a pair of $50 sneakers in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and accosted a security guard at the House of Blues in Los Angeles and was charged with making "terrorist threats," charges he again faced only months later after he threatened to kill an ex-girlfriend.

In early 1999, ODB was pulled over in New York for a traffic violation and was accused of firing a gun at officers, although those charges were later dismissed when the police failed to prove their claims. A few months later, while being cited for a parking violation in Los Angeles, he became one of the first citizens arrested under a new California law that made wearing a bulletproof vest illegal for convicted felons. Two months later, he was picked up in Queens, New York, for running a red light and was arrested when police found crack in his Mercedes-Benz.

After two more arrests for traffic violations, including another one where he was found with crack, Dirty was sentenced to three years' probation and one year in a residential drug-rehab facility in Pasadena, California. (During court proceedings, he was scolded by the judge for falling asleep and calling a female attorney a "sperm donor.") Ten months later, after a disagreement with the staff, he walked out of the court-mandated rehab and became a fugitive.

A month later, two days after appearing onstage with the Wu-Tang Clan in New York, he was arrested in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Philadelphia by an officer who recognized him because her son was a fan.

ODB was then sentenced to two years behind bars. He spent most of that time at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York (where Tupac Shakur once served). While in prison, reports surfaced that ODB was suffering mental illness and was suicidal, although his reps denied them.

WHAT A GUY! He lived life to the fullest, I suppose.

Jesus, that is a sorry tale. I don't know if I'd call that rock n' roll (although maybe you meant it with a certain amount of irony).

It just sounds like he was a petty criminal and generally a not very nice person who happened to be involved with some very cool music (I love Wu Tang). I still think it's sad. It sounds like a pretty fucked up life.

Anyway, that's the way I see it. I know he's just a rapper etc...

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Link - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/odb_wake

Fans, Family Turn Out for O.D.B.'s Wake

Thu Nov 18, 2:57 AM ET

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By ELIZABETH LeSURE, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - Troubled rapper O.D.B., in a casket surrounded by red and white flowers, was remembered by family and friends Wednesday at a Harlem church where the focus was on the positives in his life.

 

"He just loved life," said his father, William Jones, a retired New York City Transit employee who now lives in Newport News, Va. He said he had last spoken to his son, born Russell Jones, about three weeks ago.

Jones, 35, collapsed and died Saturday inside a Manhattan recording studio. The cause of death remained undetermined, but the co-founder of the seminal rap group Wu-Tang Clan had struggled with drug and alcohol addictions. He had complained of chest pains before he died.

The casket holding Jones' body was half-open, with a blanket of white flowers across its lower half. Other floral arrangements flanked the casket in the front of the church, where mourners walked past the body. Jones' wife, Icelene Jones, sat in the front pew, and relatives, fans and friends gathered inside and outside the St. James Presbyterian Church.

O.D.B. was known for his unique rap styles, which ranged from the slurred to the hyper to the nonsensical. Even in the nine-man Clan, with featured such future stars as Method Man, RZA and Ghostface Killa, he stood out. He recently signed with Roc-a-Fella records.

"He was a true artist and he also dealt with a lot of pain in his life," Roc-A-Fella founder Damon Dash said before entering the church.

Shortly before his death, Jones had finished a prison sentence for drug possession and for escaping from a rehabilitation clinic. But the visitors who turned out Wednesday were more focused on Jones' accomplishments.

Nathalie Dantignac, 53, said her sister was Jones' godmother. Her own son had grown up in Brooklyn with the future rap star, she recalled.

Jones was a "sweet, quiet kid," Dantignac said. "My son was a jokester too, so I guess that's why they clicked when they were young."

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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21186.htm

During an autopsy of the 35-year-old rapper, a doubled plastic bag containing a white powder was discovered in his stomach, said the source.

ODB, who was born Russell Jones, collapsed and died on Nov. 13 in a Manhattan recording studio.

The cause of his death remains a mystery as the Medical Examiner's Office awaits the result of toxicology tests.

But a source said the white powder leaked from its plastic container and seeped into the rapper's body.

The amount of the leak is not known and it is not confirmed yet that the substance is an illegal drug. "But what else would he be swallowing a plastic bag of? " said the source. "He wouldn't be swallowing sugar or salt."

ODB — who changed his moniker frequently and also went by the names Big Baby Jesus, Osirus and Dirt McGirt — had done time in drug rehab and went to prison on a 2001 drug charge.

Just a day or two before his death, ODB had reportedly flown back to New York from Colorado. He died two days shy of his 36th birthday.

Meanwhile, family members are squabbling over ODB's estate. The rapper has at least seven children — four of them by four different women other than his wife.

Last week his widow, Icelene Jones — whom he apparently hadn't lived with for years — was granted control of his estate by Brooklyn's Surrogate Court.

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The family members argueing over his estate won't get much, I once read in an interview that he doesn't own any electrical items at all, not even a fridge, he keeps his milk on the windowsill.

I remember him talking about that in an interview in '93. I'd like to think things changed after that. But with him you never know…

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